GRE Word List
JUXTAPOSE
to place (different things) side by side (as to compare them or contrast them or to create an interesting effect)
The meaning of the word juxtapose is to place (different things) side by side (as to compare them or contrast them or to create an interesting effect).
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| affable | being pleasant and at ease in talking to others |
| ambience | a feeling or mood associated with a particular place, person, or thing : atmosphere |
| plasticity | the quality or state of being plastic |
| inchoate | being only partly in existence or operation : incipient |
| abscission | the act or process of cutting off : removal |
| auroral | dawn |
| purveyor | one that purveys |
| labyrinth | a place constructed of or full of intricate passageways and blind alleys |
| irreparable | not reparable : irremediable |
| illusion | a misleading image presented to the vision : optical illusion |